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PublisherQuarto Publishing Group UK
ISBN-101781310947
ISBN-139781781310946
eBay Product ID (ePID)172668362
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Book TitleExuberant Catalogue of Dreams : the Americans Who Revived the Country House in Britain
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicDesign & Construction, Buildings / Residential
IllustratorYes
GenreNon-Classifiable, House & Home, Architecture
AuthorClive Aslet
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight49.9 Oz
Item Length11.6 in
Item Width9.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingAn
Dewey Edition23
Reviews2013 NYT Holiday Gift Guide - The New York Times The Daily Basics Best Book Picks For Christmas Gifts! 2013 - The Daily Basics "... a compendium of amazing stories and pictures, many from Country Life magazine." - Number One London "another must have... The cast of eighteen in this Dream book, created the "country house look." Prominent are Nancy Astor and her niece Nancy Lancaster, Chips Channon, Willie James and Lady Baillie." - Little Augry
Dewey Decimal728.80941
SynopsisClive Aslet's fabulously illustrated book is the first study of this remarkable and unlikely juxtaposition of two very different cultures. To a modern visitor nothing will seem more British than a classic country house like Cliveden or Leeds Castle. But the truth is actually very different. That such fabulous places exist in their present form - or in the case of, say, Blenheim, survive in the ownership of the family - is as much as anything down to American money and taste. Now, for the first time, Clive Aslet's magnificent book reveals the extent of this remarkable phenomenon. Covering eighteen Americans and their houses - from the captivating May Goelet and Floors Castle in Scotland to the big game hunter Willie James and West Dean Park on the south coast - he illustrates the varied destinies by which stupendously wealthy Americans ended up owning great stately piles, and the variety of transformations they wrought upon them. Some of the marriages between aristocrats and heiresses were happy, others distinctly less so. Dowries went on new roofs to keep the rain out and electric lighting and central heating to modernise dwellings that could be as wintry as the hearts of their ancestral owners. For self-made magnates like William Randolph Hearst or Gordon Selfridge a country house was a rich man's folly - Hearst filled St Donat's castle in Wales with untold fittings and trophies but hardly ever visited it, Selfridge's pharaonic vision for Hengistbury Head never escaped the drawing board. For others, like Andrew Carnegie at Skibo or Sir Paul Getty at Wormsley, it was the chance to out-do the natives by creating idylls of baronial splendour or arcadian cricket fields. But the American influence, as Clive Aslet shows, was lasting, and profound beyond architecture and design. What became known as the 'country house look' was codified by an American - Nancy Lancaster. The greatest of early twentieth-century gardens, Hidcote, was created by an American, Lawrence Johnston. It was an American romance - with Wallis Simpson at Fort Belvedere - that caused Edward VIII to abdicate. Illustrated throughout with magnificent photographs, An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams is a fascinating chronicle of how it happened that, as Gladstone's Chancellor of the Exchequer remarked in 1898, 'We are all Americans now'., Clive Aslet's fabulously illustrated book is the first study of this remarkable and unlikely juxtaposition of two very different cultures., For centuries Britain's country houses had been the exclusive preserve of their traditional landed gentry of lords and ladies, their tenancy legitimised by time-honoured ancestry and the accident of birth. But from the late nineteenth century an entirely different kind of proprietor began to take up residence. American money - lots of it - came across the Atlantic, in the form of wealthy, eligible heiresses to fortunes like the Vanderbilts', and fabulously wealthy industrialists and self-made men like William Waldorf Astor and newspaper magnate Randolph Hearst., To a modern visitor nothing will seem more British than a classic country house like Cliveden or Leeds Castle. But the truth is actually very different. That such fabulous places exist in their present form - or in the case of, say, Blenheim, survive in the ownership of the family - is as much as anything down to American money and taste. Now, for the first time, Clive Aslet's magnificent book reveals the extent of this remarkable phenomenon. Covering eighteen Americans and their houses - from the captivating May Goelet and Floors Castle in Scotland to the big game hunter Willie James and West Dean Park on the south coast - he illustrates the varied destinies by which stupendously wealthy Americans ended up owning great stately piles, and the variety of transformations they wrought upon them. Some of the marriages between aristocrats and heiresses were happy, others distinctly less so. Dowries went on new roofs to keep the rain out and electric lighting and central heating to modernise dwellings that could be as wintry as the hearts of their ancestral owners. For self-made magnates like William Randolph Hearst or Gordon Selfridge a country house was a rich man's folly - Hearst filled St Donat's castle in Wales with untold fittings and trophies but hardly ever visited it, Selfridge's pharaonic vision for Hengistbury Head never escaped the drawing board. For others, like Andrew Carnegie at Skibo or Sir Paul Getty at Wormsley, it was the chance to out-do the natives by creating idylls of baronial splendour or arcadian cricket fields. But the American influence, as Clive Aslet shows, was lasting, and profound beyond architecture and design. What became known as the country house look' was codified by an American - Nancy Lancaster. The greatest of early twentieth-century gardens, Hidcote, was created by an American, Lawrence Johnston. It was an American romance - with Wallis Simpson at Fort Belvedere - that caused Edward VIII to abdicate. Illustrated throughout with magnificent photographs, An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams is a fascinating chronicle of how it happened that, as Gladstone's Chancellor of the Exchequer remarked in 1898, We are all Americans now'.
LC Classification NumberNA7620
